When Food Kills
I read the most devastating story this morning. A 3, almost 4, year old boy died while doing a food challenge. He had multiple food allergies, including dairy. While he was at a children's hospital he tried food with baked dairy to see if his body could tolerate it. This is a normal part of food allergies. Being able to tolerate a food that is extensively baked can widen a person's diet. Except he didn't tolerate it and being at a hospital didn't save him. They couldn't save him and now he is gone. Just because I carry around an epi-pen and am prepared to use it, doesn't mean it will work. This news today is a sobering reminder of what food allergies really mean. We have done baked challenges, but in the home, at the advisement of our doctor. My child is allergic to eggs and peanuts, and after a pediatrician accidentally gave our child a vaccine that was cultured in egg, we, the allergist and myself, decided to try baked egg. Thankfully we have been without in...